08 MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



When a plant has become matured and the wood is 

 hardened, it can withstand more rough usage ; and so it 

 is with the human family. Statistics show that there is 

 a greater mortality among children than among grown 

 people. A child cannot describe its symptoms ; it merely 

 cries with pain and discomfort. Then comes the doctor, 

 who guesses what kind of microbe has got hold of it, and 

 in accordance with his theories he puts up a lot of drugs 

 which are probably no antiseptics at all. They do not 

 affect the microbes, which go on producing a state of 

 fermentation in the child's body, and are possibly encou- 

 raged rather than otherwise by the medicines that have 

 been administered. In this case the child grows worse, 

 the doctor gives it up, and presently it dies. The doctor 

 did all he knew, but he was ignorant of the true cause 

 of the sickness, and more likely hastened the child's 

 decease instead of doing anything to prevent it. 



The treatment of older children and young people is 

 similar to that of young children, only it requires longer 

 time usually and more of the medicine to perfect a satu- 

 ration of the body. It also usually requires more time 

 to complete a purification of the blood. Chronic diseases 

 require still longer time and more medicine. They are 

 long coming, and they go slowly. In them the process 

 of fermentation probably began years before the disease 

 made itself felt. Then the microbes have probably ad- 

 vanced to such an extent that the circulation of the blood 

 is impeded, the microbes clogging up the vessels, causing 

 pain, and not until then, perhaps, does the person com- 

 plain of being sick. Even these diseases can be cured by 

 the microbe-killer if it be taken with enough persever- 

 ance, so that not only the microbes are destroyed, but 

 the red corpuscles of the blood are renovated, the circu- 

 lation is freed, and the red color of the skin is re- 

 stored through a complete action of the capillary vessels. 

 Young women about arriving at maturity should use the 

 medicine freely. It purifies the blood and increases the 

 tone of the system, arousing the circulation, so that they 

 would not feel the change. In the same way it is useful 



